When you first install WordPress, the opening page it displays is called the _Dashboard_. Unfortunately, this page is pretty useless. In fact, it’s worse than useless, since it loads a bunch of RSS feeds from some seemingly random WordPress-power blogs (which can take quite a while). My original “fix” for this page was to never use it.

Fortunately, the folks over at the “Simple Thoughts”:1 blog hacked a fix for the Dashboard. The fixed Dashboard is actually useful giving you a list of your draft posts, recent posts, number of post and comments and some other stuff.

You can read all about the Dashboard hack “here”:2. Once again, I’ve updated the “_WordPress Customization_”:3 static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this hack.

[1(Simple Thoughts blog homepage)]http://blog.taragana.com/
[3(Zoinger's WordPress Customization static page)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/wordpress-customization/
[2(Dashboard hack page)]http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-hack-how-to-trim-the-fat-resource-hogging-dashboard-in-admin/